Lady Arianne Martell Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Whenever I read Dany's POV, for some reason, I just feel this huge disconnect. It feels like I'm reading the POV of someone I just absolutely cannot relate to. She seems far away and very ostentatious...I just can't put my finger on it. The other POV's, however, all seem very relatable with the exception of Melisandre. Interestingly, Melisandre also is very foreign...do you think GRRM intentionally made those two POVs come off so un-relatable? (Atleast for me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wmarshal Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Whenever I read Dany's POV, for some reason, I just feel this huge disconnect. It feels like I'm reading the POV of someone I just absolutely cannot relate to. She seems far away and very ostentatious...I just can't put my finger on it. The other POV's, however, all seem very relatable with the exception of Melisandre. Interestingly, Melisandre also is very foreign...do you think GRRM intentionally made those two POVs come off so un-relatable? (Atleast for me) I don't feel Dany's is a exotic look, but more of a modern look, what you would see in a modern teenage girl, not in a exiled war maiden dead set to conquer a continent with a harsh unforgiving background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Blizzardborn Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I don't have that problem. Maybe you and Dany have a personality clash issue? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosImprisonateMe Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I believe that GRRM purposely made her personally and PoV to create polar views of her. I said it in another thread, but many books that are considered great works are because of this notion. You can either chose to fall in love with the vision of the character or you can look at her actions and be skeptical. Many people who chose to go with the second make the mistake of looking at it as crap. Sometimes one can be like, "I cannot believe a character can be so pampered by the author." GRRM said in his recent interview that the HBO series and the books will have different points of view. I believe its because HBO needs to glorify some characters for the audience. However, in the novels I believe characters will have more skeptical views that they may have had in small amounts before. Dany for example, I think the skeptism is very small of what could or will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatty Duelist Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Daenerys is different from most PoVs in that she's boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Arianne Martell Posted April 19, 2014 Author Share Posted April 19, 2014 Daenerys is different from most PoVs in that she's boring. :agree: :agree: :agree: :agree: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Heath Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 It does feel less like it's in her head. Isn't she the only POV where it describes how she looks in terms of eye color, hair color and all that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ovis alba Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Daenerys is different from most PoVs in that she's boring. To me it's alternating. GoT was totally fine afterwards there's just a lot of waiting around with a few peaks (House of the Undying saved it for me in the second book, how she got the Unsullied I still like and then the beginning of Meereen was still kind of intersting, but it went in circles just too many times. I think it's a little because she is the only one that "drives" the story on her side. In King's Landing if one person is staying low for a while, some others make up for it. In Dany-land either she gets it together or noone is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosImprisonateMe Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I hope it doesn't surprise anyone if this polar view of Dany doesn't change. Without condemning or condoning, the fact that Dany's PoV is much stronger than any other character, the Dany fan's view of her will not change no matter what actions she will do as the story progresses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingelheim Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I don't feel her as different because of that. I don't like her, as many here do, but for other reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Guapo Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 She is by far the most interesting POV in the book as far as I am concerned. Others of course would disagree, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Arryn Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travy1991 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I liked her storyline in A Game of Thrones. After that, she lost me a little bit. I don't think it's necessarily Dany that bothers me, it's moreso Essos. I just don't find it as compelling a continent as Westeros. I also find the characters more forgettable...and that might have something to do with their names which I don't find memorable...and then when we return to her plotline twelve chapters later, I ask myself: "Hang on who is this minor secondary character who has done something important or is dead? Should I care?!" A few high points here and there aside, I don't find Dany's Essos that interesting or Tyrion, Quentyn and Jon Connington's storylines when they go to Essos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferocious Veldt Roarer Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I can't say I have the same experience. On my first reads, I couldn't stomach chapters starting with "BR" (that is, Bran and Brienne), and wasn't very fond of Davos, either. Dany certainly didn't feel any weaker than other narrators, and more interesting than some. But yes, I've had quite enough of Slaver's Bay, thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter's Knight Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Foreign to whom? Both Westeros and Essos are equally foreign to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Targdust Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I don't think it's so much as that she's foreign as that she's the closest thing we have to a commoner in a regular POV. Davos is close but he's been living noble since RR.I have a difficult time picturing her fitting in anywhere in Westeros.Or when I think about if RR never happened she'd be a Westeros Princess probably constantly fighting with Viserys and probably married to him.I can't picture her at all in Westeros politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frey Pentos Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 .do you think GRRM intentionally made those two POVs come off so un-relatable? (Atleast for me) No. It's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlady B Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I do feel the change of "climate" between the PoVs. The different tension in their narrations, like if you are reading a different story in another book, but still the same. That's what I like about Asoiaf. And even more when different PoV share a location, their impressions are quite different (Arya-Sam in Braavos, Tyrion-Dany at SB). Maybe you just don't like the character or that particular arc, that's all. Foreign to whom? Both Westeros and Essos are equally foreign to me.lol :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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